Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate TransactionsDuties: Provide comprehensive legal support and advice to all functional areas of the organization, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including operations, finance, tax, treasury, and corporate development teams, to address legal issues related to business activities and transactions. Assist with corporate governance matters by supporting the corporate secretarial function, preparing notices, minutes, board materials, and related documentation. Negotiate, draft, review, and interpret a wide range of transactional agreements and legal documents, including disclosure documents, non-disclosure agreements, credit agreements, offering documents, collateral trust agreements, and collateralized reinsurance agreements. Support the Head of Legal for Corporate and Strategic Transactions and the global transactions team on complex, high-value, and time-sensitive transactional matters. Manage and instruct outside counsel to ensure effective representation and alignment with organizational objectives. Provide guidance on legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate potential liabilities in corporate transactions and governance matters.
Requirements: Requires a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, and3 years of experience as a commercial transactional lawyer, associate, in-house legal counsel, or in a related role, performing corporate and commercial transactional work and advising on corporate governance matters. Experience specified must include 3 years of experience with each of the following: corporate law and corporate transactions; running transactions through all phases of the deal lifecycle; performing due diligence, negotiating confidentiality agreements, drafting term sheets, and drafting due diligence memorandum; drafting and negotiating merger agreements, share purchase agreements, and asset purchase agreements; drafting and negotiating ancillary deal documents, disclosure schedules, subscription agreements, and indemnification agreements; advising on general corporate governance matters; advising senior management on corporate legal issues; analyzing the legal and regulatory implications of business transactions; and general corporate restructuring and reorganization, including dissolution and liquidation of legal entities. Requires a New York or Connecticut bar license. Requires up to 10% domestic/international travel.
Internal Referrals for this position are eligible for the Employee Referral Program.
Employer: XL Global Services, Inc.
Work Location: 225 Liberty Street 40th Floor, New York, NY 10281
Hours: M-F, 37.5 hours/week
Salary: - The pay for this position is $165,464 to $234,000/year. Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual's skill, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleague's pay.
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XL Global Services, Inc. (a member of the AXA SA Group)
677 Washington Blvd, Suite 1000
Stamford, CT 06901
